Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:41:29 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Owen Becker <owen@careflow.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux emulation status Message-ID: <20031211154129.GA58813@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20031211044048.GA1175@careflow.com> References: <20031211044048.GA1175@careflow.com>
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:40:48PM -0500, Owen Becker wrote:
> Anyone know what the status of running i386 linux binaries on
> FreeBSD/amd64?
Peter Wemm and I have agreed that the priority for running binaries is:
1. FreeBSD/i386 ELF
2. 32-bit i386 Linux ELF
3. 64-bit amd64 Linux ELF
of course someone may have other priorities and work on things in a
different order.
> More specifically, has anyone gotten mozilla/firebird going?
Unfortunately, the Mozilla developers have depended on having carnal
knowledge of GCC's internal C++ ABI and exception mechanism. I don't
understand why, but this makes it rather hard to port to new
architectures.
I have some patches for Mozilla 1.4 with GCC 3.2. I started working on
porting them, but December has become my work month from hell. It is
important to me to get these into the Mozilla CVS tree for 1.6/0.8.
Peter mentioned there seems to be some patches in the Mozilla bugzilla
that might cover GCC 3.3. If someone is bored and wanted to spend some
time on it... all I ask is that if someone does port them, to post the
patches and give me a chance to Sheppard them into the Mozilla CVS tree so
things are as AMD would like them to be (naming, etc...).
--
-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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